THROUGH HELL and INFERNO
Written by Chip Zdarsky
Penciled by Marco Checchetto, Francesco Mobili and Jorge Fornes
Published Sept 2019 - Jun 2020
Hells Kitchen is in trouble. With Daredevil still AWOL, the neighborhood he used to call home is caught in a deadly gang war. The Libris family try’s to flex over the Owl in the mafia and DD deficit, while Spider-Man does his best to fill the void left by the Man Without Fear.
Meanwhile the Libris attempt to woo the former kingpin of crime, the current NYC mayor Wilson Fisk. The only problem is that you can’t take the gangster out of him if you’re going to insult him. Wilson brutally murders a rather mouthy guest with his bare hands, while Daredevil’s former flame Electra agrees to train her impressionable former lover.
As big red is reminded about just what it was Stick taught them about, Wilson is raked over the coals in reference to the murder his people just cleaned up. Meanwhile Detective Cole and Matt Murdock discuss over coffee and more or less discover they're on the same side against the gang war heating up between the Libris, the Stromwyns, Hammerhead's crew and the Owl. Detective Cole on the other hand can't stand by under the order of no policing in Hell's Kitchen and interrupts an assault.
And speaking of this order, Daredevil and Elektra descend upon the governor's mansion to find out who gave it. Under duress, he explains it was the Stromwyns, while the Mayor is dealing with some trouble of his own. The Libris crime family throws him out of the window and critically injures him. They follow up a bold move like that with assassinating Hammerhead....
Ugh.. At this point, I'm realizing this story is just dragging and dragging on.
Eventually Daredevil has to fight a bunch of people, like Rhino and Bullseye, and he beats them up and at the end, he puts his costume back on. Daredevil's back. Yay.
I don't mind it when a comic puts together an epic 9 parter, but eventually you need to kinda go in one direction. If you like hundreds of plot points, then I suppose Chip Zdarsky's Daredevil is for you. This one had lots to enjoy but also a lot of things that just made little sense, nor helped advance the larger plot. This one was decent, but because it drug on forever, I give this one a 6/10.
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